Creative Europe: the Financing Programme for Culture and Media Projects (Part 1)

     

  

   Tomorrow is Europe Day, and I have already celebrated it today. I am sure that those of you who are working in the culture or media fields, or even those who are simply following everything that happens in these domains, are perfectly aware of all the possible transnational activities that could be carried out on the European level. But what about financing? Is there a European grant that applies to us?

      Today I attended a seminar about the Creative Europe grants, and we will talk about it for the following weeks. Let's start with some general information, for those of you who are not familiar with the programme. 

    First of all, we must know that this programme is being implemented between 2014-2020, and is replacing the past programmes of the EACEA (Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency), Culture 2007 and Media 2007. The only difference is that Creative Europe is a broader programme, encompassing the two subprogrammes, Culture and Media. Through this programme and across the years, the European Union is investing 1,46 billion euro into innovative cultural and audiovisual projects from all EU member states and not only. 

       For this introductory part, we will take a quick look at the types of financed activities for each of the two subprogrammes from the Creative Europe umbrella.

        

The Culture subprogramme is about...

• transnational cooperation programmes between a minimum of three countries;
• literary translations;
• European networks dedicated to the mobility and promotion of artists and creative professionals;
• platforms for launching and promoting European artists at the start of their career, as well as their cross-border mobility.

The Media subprogramme is about... 

• formation for media professionals;
• financing for the development of audiovisual programmes;
• financing for European television programmes;
• new market penetration and promotion for European audiovisual projects;
• financing for European film festivals;
• European film distribution;
• financing international cinema co-productions.

    In the upcoming posts, we will talk about each one of these subprogrammes and financing lines, general eligibility conditions, examples of initiatives that have been financed through the Creative Europe programme, as well as the competitions your projects can enter. Stay tuned!